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Styling Your Widgets

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Styling your widgets isn’t entirely new to you. We’ve touched on some minor styling features in prior chapters, and you’ve seen styling techniques in our code samples. But this is the chapter where we’ll take a deep dive on styling. Finally! We get to make our widgets look great in addition to merely working great.

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    Material Design is a set of guidelines for the look and feel of an app. Briefly, it tries to make the UI resemble the physical world, specifically paper elements stacked on top of one another. You can read more about it at https://material.io/

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    There are other techniques to position inside of a Stack such as Container, Align, and Padding. But Position works great with Stack.

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Payne, R. (2019). Styling Your Widgets. In: Beginning App Development with Flutter. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5181-2_8

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